Wednesday, 29 November 2006

Eating Out

This weeks chinese lesson dealt with eating out (in a Restaurant). A good lesson that should be very useful! It looks like there will be a follow-on lesson in the New Year, as they has been some interest from the Tuesday night class!

Have now listened to the OlyPicks sessions from ChinesePod.com. The 'Newbie' session 'The Olympics' was good, but I found the 'Elementary' lessons 'The Opening Ceremony' and 'The Olympic Marathon' to be heavy going for a beginner like me. The lessons are not very self contained and therefore require that the user has completed previous lessons to fully understand. The transcripts would probably help but you have to subscribe to get them. The basic subscription is $9 a month (less if you sign up to for six months or more). Think that I'll be leaving it for a while though!

The chinese-tools.com website, mentioned in the comments to my last post, looks very interesting, but as I was looking to for audio to listen to in the car, I doesn't meet my needs. Would be good for somebody else though!

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